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Council’s beastly cremation price rise

Argyll and Bute Council made national headlines when it increased the price of cremation to £666 - a figure known as the number of the beast, before lowering the rise by a pound.

The number has also been widely associated with evil after reviled occultist and self-styled ‘wickedest man in the world’ Aleister Crowley, who owned Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness, from 1899 to 1913, anointed himself The Great Beast 666.